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The Boss BabyFollow

2017 • PG • 1h 37m • Animation, Adventure, Comedy • Universal Pictures

There's a new boss in town.

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2.6

6.3

CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$50.90M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$175.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$504.10M

$329.10M international

Domestic legs3.44x

Budget$125M

2017 rank#17

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Cast & crew

Full McGrath filmography

Tom McGrath

Tom McGrath Director

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin Starring

Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow Starring

Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi Starring

ScreenplayKen Daurio Produced byUniversal Pictures MusicHans Zimmer & Steve Mazzaro StudioUniversal Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Mar 31-Apr 2 1 $50.2M — 3,773 $13,305 $50.2M

2 Apr 7-9 1 $26.4M −47.5% 3,829 $6,885 $89.4M

3 Apr 14-16 2 $16.0M −39.3% 3,743 $4,278 $116.8M

4 Apr 21-23 2 $12.7M −20.6% 3,697 $3,439 $137.0M

5 Apr 28-30 4 $9.4M −26.3% 3,739 $2,507 $148.8M

6 May 5-7 3 $6.0M −36.2% 3,284 $1,820 $156.5M

7 May 12-14 6 $4.5M −24.8% 2,911 $1,545 $162.3M

8 May 19-21 8 $2.8M −36.7% 2,071 $1,375 $166.2M

9 May 26-28 9 $1.7M −39.4% 1,342 $1,286 $169.0M

10 Jun 2-4 12 $621.1K −64.0% 684 $908 $170.9M

11 Jun 9-11 13 $512.4K −17.5% 432 $1,186 $171.8M

12 Jun 16-18 19 $323.4K −36.9% 260 $1,244 $172.5M

13 Jun 23-25 19 $330.8K +2.3% 241 $1,373 $173.1M

14 Jun 30-Jul 2 22 $220.6K −33.3% 215 $1,026 $173.5M

15 Jul 7-9 21 $191.1K −13.4% 195 $980 $173.9M

16 Jul 14-16 23 $140.3K −26.6% 170 $825 $174.2M

17 Jul 21-23 24 $137.3K −2.2% 163 $842 $174.5M

18 Jul 28-30 30 $96.6K −29.7% 149 $648 $174.7M

19 Aug 4-6 38 $62.9K −34.8% 120 $524 $174.8M

20 Aug 11-13 52 $26.2K −58.4% 87 $301 $174.9M

21 Aug 18-20 56 $17.6K −32.9% 109 $161 $174.9M

22 Aug 25-27 65 $11.5K −34.3% 97 $119 $174.9M

23 Sep 1-3 75 $11.0K −4.5% 90 $122 $175.0M

24 Sep 8-10 71 $8.2K −26.0% 31 $263 $175.0M

25 Sep 15-17 96 $1.5K −81.8% 13 $114 $175.0M

26 Sep 22-24 104 $524 −64.8% 5 $105 $175.0M

27 Sep 29-Oct 1 53 $15.3K +2827.3% 32 $479 $175.0M

28 Oct 6-8 109 $100 −99.3% 2 $50 $175.0M

29 Oct 20-22 92 $1.6K +1500.0% 2 $800 $175.0M

30 Oct 27-29 98 $838 −47.6% 2 $419 $175.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Thu Mar 30 #P $1.5M — $1.5M 0 $0 -1

Fri Mar 31 #1 $15.6M — $15.6M 3,773 $4,140 1

Sat Apr 1 #1 $20.1M +28.8% $35.7M 3,773 $5,332 2

Sun Apr 2 #1 $14.5M −28.1% $50.2M 3,773 $3,833 3

Mon Apr 3 #2 $3.1M −78.7% $53.3M 3,773 $817 4

Tue Apr 4 #2 $4.4M +41.8% $57.7M 3,773 $1,158 5

Wed Apr 5 #2 $2.7M −37.8% $60.4M 3,773 $721 6

Thu Apr 6 #2 $2.7M −0.7% $63.1M 3,773 $716 7

Fri Apr 7 #1 $6.9M +156.4% −55.6% $70.0M 3,829 $1,809 8

Sat Apr 8 #1 $11.8M +70.8% −41.2% $81.8M 3,829 $3,090 9

Sun Apr 9 #1 $7.6M −35.7% −47.4% $89.4M 3,829 $1,986 10

Mon Apr 10 #1 $2.2M −71.3% −29.3% $91.6M 3,829 $570 11

Tue Apr 11 #1 $3.4M +55.3% −22.5% $95.0M 3,829 $885 12

Wed Apr 12 #1 $2.7M −20.2% −0.6% $97.7M 3,829 $706 13

Thu Apr 13 #1 $3.1M +13.6% +13.7% $100.8M 3,829 $802 14

Fri Apr 14 #2 $6.5M +112.8% −5.6% $107.3M 3,743 $1,747 15

Sat Apr 15 #2 $5.6M −13.9% −52.4% $112.9M 3,743 $1,503 16

Sun Apr 16 #2 $3.8M −31.6% −49.4% $116.8M 3,743 $1,028 17

Mon Apr 17 #2 $2.8M −26.5% +29.6% $119.6M 3,743 $755 18

Tue Apr 18 #2 $1.9M −33.0% −44.1% $121.5M 3,743 $506 19

Wed Apr 19 #2 $1.4M −27.1% −49.0% $122.9M 3,743 $369 20

Thu Apr 20 #2 $1.3M −2.4% −56.2% $124.2M 3,743 $360 21

Fri Apr 21 #2 $3.2M +139.4% −50.7% $127.5M 3,697 $872 22

Sat Apr 22 #2 $5.9M +83.7% +5.2% $133.4M 3,697 $1,601 23

Sun Apr 23 #2 $3.6M −39.7% −7.3% $137.0M 3,697 $965 24

Mon Apr 24 #3 $551.4K −84.5% −80.5% $137.5M 3,697 $149 25

Tue Apr 25 #3 $848.2K +53.8% −55.2% $138.4M 3,697 $229 26

Wed Apr 26 #3 $535.7K −36.8% −61.2% $138.9M 3,697 $145 27

Thu Apr 27 #3 $526.3K −1.8% −60.9% $139.4M 3,697 $142 28

Fri Apr 28 #5 $2.0M +283.7% −37.4% $141.4M 3,739 $540 29

Sat Apr 29 #2 $4.4M +116.5% −26.2% $145.8M 3,739 $1,169 30

Sun Apr 30 #3 $3.0M −31.8% −16.4% $148.8M 3,739 $797 31

Mon May 1 #6 $418.6K −86.0% −24.1% $149.2M 3,739 $112 32

Tue May 2 #6 $606.8K +44.9% −28.5% $149.8M 3,739 $162 33

Wed May 3 #6 $379.8K −37.4% −29.1% $150.2M 3,739 $102 34

Thu May 4 #5 $367.3K −3.3% −30.2% $150.6M 3,739 $98 35

Fri May 5 #3 $1.4M +267.9% −33.1% $151.9M 3,284 $411 36

Sat May 6 #3 $2.8M +110.4% −35.0% $154.8M 3,284 $866 37

Sun May 7 #4 $1.8M −37.3% −40.2% $156.5M 3,284 $543 38

Mon May 8 #6 $273.5K −84.7% −34.7% $156.8M 3,284 $83 39

Tue May 9 #7 $409.8K +49.8% −32.5% $157.2M 3,284 $125 40

Wed May 10 #6 $282.5K −31.1% −25.6% $157.5M 3,284 $86 41

Thu May 11 #6 $276.1K −2.3% −24.8% $157.8M 3,284 $84 42

Fri May 12 #6 $970.5K +251.5% −28.2% $158.7M 2,911 $333 43

Sat May 13 #5 $2.0M +109.5% −28.5% $160.8M 2,911 $698 44

Sun May 14 #7 $1.5M −26.6% −16.2% $162.3M 2,911 $513 45

Mon May 15 #7 $247.7K −83.4% −9.5% $162.5M 2,911 $85 46

Tue May 16 #6 $347.5K +40.3% −15.2% $162.9M 2,911 $119 47

Wed May 17 #6 $248.1K −28.6% −12.2% $163.1M 2,911 $85 48

Thu May 18 #6 $233.5K −5.9% −15.4% $163.4M 2,911 $80 49

Fri May 19 #9 $594.8K +154.8% −38.7% $163.9M 2,071 $287 50

Sat May 20 #8 $1.3M +121.6% −35.2% $165.3M 2,071 $636 51

Sun May 21 #8 $935.4K −29.0% −37.3% $166.2M 2,071 $452 52

Mon May 22 #7 $345.6K −63.1% +39.5% $166.5M 2,071 $167 53

Tue May 23 #9 $262.0K −24.2% −24.6% $166.8M 2,071 $127 54

Wed May 24 #9 $218.3K −16.7% −12.0% $167.0M 2,071 $105 55

Thu May 25 #10 $230.5K +5.6% −1.3% $167.3M 2,071 $111 56

Fri May 26 #9 $421.6K +82.9% −29.1% $167.7M 1,342 $314 57

Sat May 27 #9 $674.2K +59.9% −48.8% $168.4M 1,342 $502 58

Sun May 28 #9 $630.0K −6.6% −32.7% $169.0M 1,342 $469 59

Mon May 29 #9 $735.2K +16.7% +112.7% $169.7M 1,342 $548 60

Tue May 30 #9 $224.4K −69.5% −14.4% $169.9M 1,342 $167 61

Wed May 31 #9 $192.4K −14.2% −11.8% $170.1M 1,342 $143 62

Thu Jun 1 #9 $165.6K −14.0% −28.2% $170.3M 1,342 $123 63

Fri Jun 2 #12 $173.7K +4.9% −58.8% $170.5M 684 $254 64

Sat Jun 3 #12 $257.8K +48.4% −61.8% $170.7M 684 $377 65

Sun Jun 4 #13 $189.7K −26.4% −69.9% $170.9M 684 $277 66

Mon Jun 5 #12 $96.4K −49.2% −86.9% $171.0M 684 $141 67

Tue Jun 6 #11 $114.3K +18.6% −49.1% $171.1M 684 $167 68

Wed Jun 7 #11 $95.2K −16.7% −50.5% $171.2M 684 $139 69

Thu Jun 8 #11 $83.9K −11.9% −49.3% $171.3M 684 $123 70

Fri Jun 9 #13 $157.0K +87.2% −9.6% $171.5M 432 $364 71

Sat Jun 10 #13 $221.2K +40.8% −14.2% $171.7M 432 $512 72

Sun Jun 11 #13 $134.2K −39.3% −29.3% $171.8M 432 $311 73

Mon Jun 12 #13 $74.2K −44.7% −23.0% $171.9M 432 $172 74

Tue Jun 13 #13 $103.3K +39.2% −9.6% $172.0M 432 $239 75

Wed Jun 14 #13 $88.8K −14.1% −6.8% $172.1M 432 $205 76

Thu Jun 15 #13 $79.3K −10.6% −5.4% $172.2M 432 $184 77

Fri Jun 16 #- $97.7K +23.2% −37.8% $172.3M 260 $376 78

Sat Jun 17 #- $125.7K +28.6% −43.2% $172.4M 260 $483 79

Sun Jun 18 #- $100.1K −20.3% −25.4% $172.5M 260 $385 80

Mon Jun 19 #- $54.8K −45.3% −26.2% $172.5M 260 $211 81

Tue Jun 20 #- $72.9K +33.0% −29.4% $172.6M 260 $280 82

Wed Jun 21 #- $60.3K −17.2% −32.0% $172.7M 260 $232 83

Thu Jun 22 #- $68.4K +13.4% −13.8% $172.7M 260 $263 84

Fri Jun 23 #- $111.2K +62.5% +13.8% $172.9M 241 $461 85

Sat Jun 24 #- $127.9K +15.1% +1.8% $173.0M 241 $531 86

Sun Jun 25 #- $91.7K −28.3% −8.4% $173.1M 241 $381 87

Mon Jun 26 #- $49.0K −46.6% −10.7% $173.1M 241 $203 88

Tue Jun 27 #- $67.2K +37.4% −7.7% $173.2M 241 $279 89

Wed Jun 28 #- $59.3K −11.8% −1.7% $173.3M 241 $246 90

Thu Jun 29 #- $55.2K −7.0% −19.4% $173.3M 241 $229 91

Fri Jun 30 #- $71.9K +30.3% −35.4% $173.4M 215 $334 92

Sat Jul 1 #- $83.6K +16.4% −34.6% $173.5M 215 $389 93

Sun Jul 2 #- $65.1K −22.2% −29.0% $173.5M 215 $303 94

Mon Jul 3 #- $51.5K −20.9% +5.2% $173.6M 215 $240 95

Tue Jul 4 #- $43.4K −15.7% −35.4% $173.6M 215 $202 96

Wed Jul 5 #- $42.0K −3.3% −29.2% $173.7M 215 $195 97

Thu Jul 6 #- $53.6K +27.8% −2.7% $173.7M 215 $250 98

Fri Jul 7 #- $61.1K +13.9% −15.0% $173.8M 195 $313 99

Sat Jul 8 #- $77.0K +26.0% −7.9% $173.9M 195 $395 100

Sun Jul 9 #- $53.0K −31.1% −18.5% $173.9M 195 $272 101

Mon Jul 10 #- $32.0K −39.7% −38.0% $173.9M 195 $164 102

Tue Jul 11 #- $40.8K +27.8% −5.9% $174.0M 195 $209 103

Wed Jul 12 #- $39.8K −2.6% −5.2% $174.0M 195 $204 104

Thu Jul 13 #- $38.8K −2.4% −27.6% $174.1M 195 $199 105

Fri Jul 14 #- $45.4K +16.9% −25.7% $174.1M 170 $267 106

Sat Jul 15 #- $55.9K +23.2% −27.4% $174.2M 170 $329 107

Sun Jul 16 #- $39.0K −30.2% −26.4% $174.2M 170 $230 108

Mon Jul 17 #- $24.1K −38.2% −24.5% $174.2M 170 $142 109

Tue Jul 18 #- $29.8K +23.5% −27.0% $174.3M 170 $175 110

Wed Jul 19 #- $29.2K −1.9% −26.5% $174.3M 170 $172 111

Thu Jul 20 #- $31.7K +8.5% −18.3% $174.3M 170 $187 112

Fri Jul 21 #- $42.9K +35.2% −5.5% $174.4M 163 $263 113

Sat Jul 22 #- $55.3K +28.9% −1.1% $174.4M 163 $339 114

Sun Jul 23 #- $39.1K −29.3% +0.2% $174.5M 163 $240 115

Mon Jul 24 #- $24.6K −37.0% +2.1% $174.5M 163 $151 116

Tue Jul 25 #- $29.0K +17.9% −2.6% $174.5M 163 $178 117

Wed Jul 26 #- $28.2K −2.7% −3.4% $174.5M 163 $173 118

Thu Jul 27 #- $28.5K +0.9% −10.1% $174.6M 163 $175 119

Fri Jul 28 #- $32.1K +12.5% −25.2% $174.6M 149 $215 120

Sat Jul 29 #- $38.8K +21.0% −29.8% $174.6M 149 $261 121

Sun Jul 30 #- $25.7K −33.9% −34.4% $174.7M 149 $172 122

Mon Jul 31 #- $14.4K −44.0% −41.7% $174.7M 149 $96 123

Tue Aug 1 #- $23.1K +61.1% −20.3% $174.7M 149 $155 124

Wed Aug 2 #- $20.1K −13.1% −28.8% $174.7M 149 $135 125

Thu Aug 3 #- $22.7K +12.7% −20.5% $174.7M 149 $152 126

Fri Aug 4 #- $19.7K −13.0% −38.5% $174.8M 120 $164 127

Sat Aug 5 #- $24.5K +24.5% −36.8% $174.8M 120 $205 128

Sun Aug 6 #- $18.7K −23.9% −27.2% $174.8M 120 $156 129

Mon Aug 7 #- $11.9K −36.2% −17.0% $174.8M 120 $99 130

Tue Aug 8 #- $13.2K +10.5% −43.1% $174.8M 120 $110 131

Wed Aug 9 #- $11.3K −14.3% −43.9% $174.8M 120 $94 132

Thu Aug 10 #- $10.9K −3.6% −52.0% $174.9M 120 $91 133

Fri Aug 11 #- $7.5K −30.9% −61.9% $174.9M 87 $86 134

Sat Aug 12 #- $10.7K +42.6% −56.3% $174.9M 87 $123 135

Sun Aug 13 #- $8.0K −25.8% −57.4% $174.9M 87 $91 136

Mon Aug 14 #- $4.8K −39.8% −59.8% $174.9M 87 $55 137

Tue Aug 15 #- $5.6K +16.3% −57.7% $174.9M 87 $64 138

Wed Aug 16 #- $5.3K −5.2% −53.2% $174.9M 87 $61 139

Thu Aug 17 #- $6.6K +24.4% −39.7% $174.9M 87 $75 140

Fri Aug 18 #- $5.7K −13.1% −24.1% $174.9M 109 $52 141

Sat Aug 19 #- $6.3K +10.5% −41.2% $174.9M 109 $58 142

Sun Aug 20 #- $5.6K −11.6% −30.0% $174.9M 109 $51 143

Mon Aug 21 #- $1.7K −70.3% −65.4% $174.9M 109 $15 144

Tue Aug 22 #- $2.4K +47.3% −56.2% $174.9M 109 $22 145

Wed Aug 23 #- $2.1K −13.5% −60.1% $174.9M 109 $19 146

Thu Aug 24 #- $2.0K −5.6% −69.7% $174.9M 109 $18 147

Fri Aug 25 #- $5.1K +156.9% −10.3% $174.9M 97 $53 148

Sat Aug 26 #- $3.4K −32.7% −45.4% $174.9M 97 $35 149

Sun Aug 27 #- $3.0K −13.3% −46.4% $174.9M 97 $31 150

Mon Aug 28 #- $3.8K +28.2% +131.2% $174.9M 97 $39 151

Tue Aug 29 #- $5.9K +54.5% +142.6% $174.9M 97 $61 152

Wed Aug 30 #- $1.2K −79.8% −43.2% $175.0M 97 $12 153

Thu Aug 31 #- $1.3K +6.0% −36.3% $175.0M 97 $13 154

Fri Sep 1 #- $4.4K +247.1% −13.9% $175.0M 90 $49 155

Sat Sep 2 #- $3.1K −28.7% −8.8% $175.0M 90 $35 156

Sun Sep 3 #- $3.5K +10.9% +16.7% $175.0M 90 $39 157

Mon Sep 4 #- $3.3K −4.6% −13.1% $175.0M 90 $37 158

Tue Sep 5 #- $339 −89.8% −94.3% $175.0M 90 $4 159

Wed Sep 6 #- $215 −36.6% −82.0% $175.0M 90 $2 160

Thu Sep 7 #- $228 +6.0% −82.0% $175.0M 90 $3 161

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$171.3M

Mar 30Apr 17May 4May 22Jun 8

Weekend grossWk 10 · $621.1K

$50.2M

$26.4M

$16.0M

$12.7M

$9.4M

$6.0M

$4.5M

$2.8M

$1.7M

$621.1K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,829 → 684 −82.1%

3,773 open684 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −64.0%

−47.5%

W1→2

−39.3%

W2→3

−20.6%

W3→4

−26.3%

W4→5

−36.2%

W5→6

−24.8%

W6→7

−36.7%

W7→8

−39.4%

W8→9

−64.0%

W9→10

Steepest −64.0%Best hold −20.6%

Run milestones

$100M in 14 days

$100M

Day 14

Apr 13

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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